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35341 Margaret Atwood kicks admin butt for TAs -- rank: 1000

<kenneth.mackendrick at utoronto.ca> wrote: > > who's margaret atwood? > >Some author, lit crit and poet... And who said once, apropos of recent talk, "from each according to her ability, to each according to his need." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 29 11:06:41 PST 2000

35342 Calpers etc -- rank: 1000

jf noonan wrote: >I've read more than once that, as fiduciaries, they are legally >bound to the bottom line as the only proper goal and could be >sued for malfeasance for pursuing any other goal. Does anybody >know if this is true, or just the excuse for slavishly following >Capital's wishes? The law is that they're supposed to maximize returns without taking undue risks - what used to be called the prudent man rule, in the days before gender-neutral language. In the old days, th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sat Jan 29 10:58:42 PST 2000

35343 Inflation and growth -- rank: 1000

Seth Ackerman wrote: > > I think that even World Bank economists concede that inflation > > doesn't become a serious problem until it gets over 10%. What they > > don't say is that an economy experiencing >10% inflation is generally > > one suffering from serious problems - e.g. political crisis, > > structural decline, unresolved class conflict - of which the > > inflation is more a symptom than a cause. > > > Stiglitz has vacillated on thi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 28 12:31:24 PST 2000

35344 Using Surpluses to Socialize the Economy (RE: RIP, JohnMaynard Keynes -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Your argument that "direct interventions" such as industrial policy would >catch their interest is no answer, since people still have to care about the >abstract choices between what industries to invest in and which make the >most sense. And what, pray tell, does buying stocks have to do with choices of what industries to invest in? And what's so abstract about such a choice, unless you're talking about the stock market, in which case you're undermini ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 28 12:35:31 PST 2000

35345 lying to people on the phone beats welfare -- rank: 1000

New York Times - Janaury 28, 2000 On Welfare and Not Psychic? New York Provides Training By NINA BERNSTEIN Late at night, when testimonials to "incredible psychics" flash across the television screen, the $4.99-a-minute soothsayer standing by the phone to "actually solve your problems" could be a welfare recipient recruited, screened and coached for the job by New York City. The city's welfare department has been recruiting welfare recipients to work from home as telephone ps ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 28 11:57:27 PST 2000

35346 phantom surplus? -- rank: 1000

[Max, is this right?] New York Times - January 28, 2000 The Phantom Surplus By ROBERT D. REISCHAUER WASHINGTON -- The Congressional Budget Office's new projections have whetted the appetite of many a lawmaker who feels starved after a decade of fiscal dieting. According to the budget office's estimates, the surplus could be as large as $1.9 trillion over the next decade. With such a large surplus, politicians may be unable to resist the urge to splurge. Tax cuts, prescription drugs for the elder ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 28 11:54:57 PST 2000

35347 Is John Sweeney a Socialist? -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >As head of the AFL-CIO, he has expanded resources dedicated to organizing >across the board Minor technical point: the AFL-CIO has very little power to organize on its own. It depends on its member unions to do the real work. Some have been receptive, some haven't. For all the talk of the bureaucratic centralization of the U.S. labor movement, there really isn't that much, except maybe wheh it comes to writing checks to Al Gore. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 28 11:45:06 PST 2000

35348 Fwd: Interesting Article from The Nation -- rank: 1000

[From this week's Nation. How many unions, and how many strikes are there in China?] WTO: WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITED? San Francisco In his December 20 "Beat the Devil" column, "Trade Wars, Trade Truths," Alexander Cockburn got it exactly wrong about what happened in Seattle, and he once again helped sow division in the ranks of the movement. Those of us who have been doing organizing instead of just talking about it were there in the frontlines of the Battle in Seattle, and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 28 11:27:35 PST 2000

35349 Fwd: WHAT'S IN SLATE: Bill Bradley's SAT Scores; Cyberhookers; and More -- rank: 1000

[of course SATs are not to be trusted, but this is pretty funny] From: Slate Magazine <delivery_news at slate.com> Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 12:08:38 MST Jan. 28, 2000 Dear Reader: Notes from this week's issue: In "Bill Bradley's SAT Scores," Geoff Kabaservice reveals Bradley's relatively low test score--and explores its meaning: "Bill Bradley, the thinking presidential candidate, scored a 485 verbal on his SATs. That's lower than George W. Bush, the allegedly slow-witted presi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 28 11:22:19 PST 2000

35350 Tedium or Te Deum? (Re: Spivak & Eagleton) -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >I.e., it is dogmatically assumed that everyone *must* have a theory >of psychology, as though no one could possibly not have such a >theory. I don't recall your answering my question - how you'd explain the fact that you're clinically depressed. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 28 11:19:00 PST 2000

35351 Using Surpluses to Socialize the Economy (RE: RIP, John Maynard Keynes -- rank: 1000

Nathan, I'd be very curious to see how you'd be reacting to 50 years of federal surpluses were it Pres George W. Bush, assisted by Treasury Secretary Peter Peterson, making the projections. Sorry for the ad hominem, but I suspect your tune would be very different. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 28 11:16:58 PST 2000

35352 Using Surpluses to Socialize the Economy (RE: RIP, John Maynard Keynes -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >We had a bit of a discussion of the first gain from surpluses on PEN-L >(ending payments to rich bondholders) but the second paragraph does >highlight an issue that gives the rightwing hives- namely that storing up >surpluses to pay for future social security payouts will create a major >crisis on where to invest those surpluses. If the government holds little >or no public debt, those surpluses will no longer be able to be in federal >bonds. > > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 28 10:52:57 PST 2000

35353 Is John Sweeney a Socialist? -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com > > [mailto:owner-lbo-talk at lists.panix.com]On Behalf Of Doug Henwood > > You may recall that I've defended the AFL-CIO against claims that > > it's a gang of hopelessly complicit reactionaries. But what, aside > > from holding up this card, has Sweeney done to show that he's a > > socialist? Endorsing Gore? Going before a business audience and > ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 28 10:44:36 PST 2000

35354 Scruton's Latest: The Unhappiness of Men -- rank: 1000

Do people in Britain take Scruton seriously? He seems like such an 80s relic. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 28 10:28:39 PST 2000

35355 RIP, John Maynard Keynes -- rank: 1000

THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release January 27, 2000 BUILDING ON RECORD OF FISCAL DISCIPLINE, PRESIDENT CLINTON ANNOUNCES 2001 BUDGET WILL PAY DOWN DEBT BY 2013 -- TWO YEARS EARLIER THAN PLANNED January 27, 2000 President Clinton has announced that his budget for 2001 would put America in a position to pay off the $3.6 trillion debt by 2013 -- 2 years earlier ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Fri Jan 28 07:53:18 PST 2000